Home / Quotes / Quote by stephanie roberts

Quote by stephanie roberts

“In the contorted bookkeeping of the broken, the distance you hold yourself away from them is your only value.”

Quote by stephanie roberts

Author

stephanie roberts

Browse famous quotes and profile details for stephanie roberts. more

You May Also Like

“I have a crush on you” lies somewhere between “I like you” and “I love you”. A beautiful possibility of turning, either way, depending upon the reaction it evokes. Value it.”

Love Value Crush Like Reaction

Author:Nitya Prakash

“I remember him saying, in the dark, cramped stockroom with my back against a wooden crate, "You have this power over me." He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power.”

Power Value Man Woman Convincing Fault

Book:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else.”

Important Value Worthless Beholder

Book:Chatterton

Source: Chatterton

“Money give value to life. The more money you have, the more valuable you are to others.”

Money Humorous Value Valuable Absurd Irony Aphorisms

Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

“I had a daily bliss I half indifferent viewed, Till sudden I perceived it stir,— It grew as I pursued, Till when, around a crag, It wasted from my sight, Enlarged beyond my utmost scope, I learned its sweetness right.”

Poetry Loss Value

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Don’t you feel you get value for your day if you’ve actually watched the sun rise?”

Life Value Appreciation Observation Sunrise Watch Early Risers Energising

Author:AJ Vosse

“In general the relative value of the various religions is a very difficult thing to discern; it is almost impossible, perhaps quite impossible. For a religion is known only from inside.”

Religion Culture Tradition Value Simone Weil

Book:Waiting for God

Source: Waiting for God

“The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives.”

Crazy Value Furniture Eccentric Vintage Antiques Eclectic Whimsical

Book:Small Orange Fruit

Source: Small Orange Fruit

“An ever growing part of our major institutions’ functions is the cultivation and maintenance of three sets of illusions which turn the citizen into a client to be saved by experts...The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services. This illusion is due to an educated blindness to the worth of use-values in the total economy. In none of the economic models serving as national guidelines is there a variable to account for non-marketable use-values any more than there is a variable for nature's perennial contribution.”

Education Economics Institutions Value Consumerism Autonomy Usefulness Illusions

Book:The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

Source: The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value. The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.”

Life Artist Knowledge Creation Mathematics Value Mathematician Memorial Practical Trivial

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology